Penholder.



No. 62 8,26|. Patented July 4, I899.

J. L. CAR-HEY.

PENHO'LDER.

(Application filed Apr. 28, 1899.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JAMES L. OARNEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

PENHOLDERL SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 628,261, dated. July 4, 1899.

Application filed April 28,1899. Serial No. 714,8497. (No model.) I"

To all whom it may concern.-

Beit known thatI, JAMES L. CARNEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at the borough of Brooklyn, in the city and State of New York, have invented an Improvementin Penholders, of which the following is a specification.

Penholders have been made in which a lever is employed to press against the pen and hold it in position, and a holder has been made of sheet metal slipped upon a bifurcated handle. troduced between a nearly cylindrical support and a returned convex tongue and the metal is folded back again to form a spring, against which the lever acts, so that the spring intervening between the two parts of the penholder allows for differences in size of the pen and holds the pen firmly without undue strain or tendency to bend the sheet-metal holder.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a longitudinal section of the holder. Fig. 2 is an end view of the parts as open and ready to receive a pen, and Fig. 3 illustrates approximately the shape of the sheet metal as cut out ready to be bent up to form the holder.

The portion 2 of sheet metal is adapted to being bent up into nearly a cylindrical form, and it has ears 3 for the pivotal lever, and there is a backwardlyextending springtongue 4, adapted to being folded at 5, and the portion 6 is sufficiently wide to be bent into a convex form within the cylindrical portion 2 of the penholder, and this convex portion comes within the concave side of the pen, and the sheet metal is extended as a tongue 7 and folded back at 8, so that this tongue 7 comes within the cylindrical portion 2 and forms a spring.

The lever is made of the handle 10 and a presser 11, substantiallyat right angles to the handle portion, and there are projections adapted to receive or form the pivots 13. The pivot may be a wire passed through the respective parts; but I prefer to out out the sheet metal that forms the lever with projections, forming the pivots which pass into the holes in the ears 3, so that the parts can easily be put together, and after the pen has been In the present invention the pen is in put in place the handle of the lever is swung so as to close down adjacent to the side of the cylinder 2, and in so doing the presser 11 acts upon the tongue 7 and applies power to the tongue and to the convex portion 6 of the the pen, which is shown at A, and when the lever or handle 10 is swung up into position (indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1) the presser 11 is moved away from the tongue 7 and the force or pressure is relieved, so that the pen is liberated by the action of the spring 4.

It is to be understood that the penholder constructed as aforesaid is to be introduced into any suitable handle. At 13, I have represented a sheet-metal tube into which the cylinder 2 fits, and hence the cylinder is held by the tube, and this tube B may either be a tubular metal handle or it may be a tube to connect the penholder to a wooden or other handle, and usually it is advantageous to notch the sheet-metal tube B adjacent to the pivot-ears 3, so that the ears may slide into the notch of the sheet-metal tube and the handle 10 of the lever will lie closely against the exterior surface of the sheel-metal tube B.

I claim as my invention- 1. A sheet-metal penholder having a nearly cylindrical portion 2 and pivot-ears 3, the

penholder to press the same tightly against part 4 havinga fold at 5, a wider convex portion 6 to rest against the pen and a returned tongue 7 forming a spring and a lever pivoted to the ears and having a presser to act against the spring-tongue, substantially as set forth. 2. The sheet-metal penholder having a nearly cylindrical portion 2 and pivot-ears 3, the part 4 having a fold at 5, a wider convex portion 6 to rest against the pen and a returned tongue 7 forming a spring andalever havinga presser substantially at right angles to the handle portion of the lever and projec tions entering the holes in the pivot-ears and connecting the lever to the cylindrical portion of the penholder, substantially as set forth. Signed by me this 26th day of April, 1899.

JAMES L. OARNEY. Witnesses:

GEO. T. PINcKNEY, E. EfPoHLn. 

